{"id":148,"date":"2008-07-11T08:34:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omnux.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/11\/att-carrier-cost-recovery-fee\/"},"modified":"2012-10-12T16:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T21:29:12","slug":"att-carrier-cost-recovery-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omnux.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/11\/att-carrier-cost-recovery-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T Carrier Cost Recovery Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I had a message in my email InBox telling me that I had a new bill waiting for me from AT&T.
\nLong Distance Bill<\/a>
\nThis particular bill was for my home telephone and DSL service. When I first got DSL, it was $15 a month. My home phone and DSL bill was around $30, and I was happy with that. Over the past couple of years, my bill has slowly crept up in price. The DSL price was an introductory price… A year or so after that went away, they decided to raise the price of DSL again.. So, my bill has been getting more and more expensive. <\/p>\n

Today’s bill was for $44.xx. I thought that seemed annoying, so I went to their website to check it out. I noticed that last month’s bill was for $42.xx, and I decided to investigate.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the difference was the long distance bill. I use my cell phone to make my calls. I don’t see any reason to do anything else. EXCEPT, in one very special case: When I need to send a fax. I was checking out a prospective tenant last month, and the previous landlord’s needed a fax of the authorization sheet. So, I had to send it to them. I ended up sending 3 different faxes for this. Each one was 1 minute long, and I was billed 12 cents for each minute. 36 cents, right?<\/p>\n

WRONG!!!<\/p>\n

My long distance bill was $2.34. The extra $1.98 was for fees and taxes. Let’s get one thing straight. I’m all for giving people what they need to survive. I understand infrastructure costs and all that jazz. But, when I spend 3 minutes on the phone at an advertised cost of 12 cents a minute, it annoys me to see a bill of $2.34.<\/p>\n

When we look at the bill in more detail, we can quickly see that the majority of the cost is for AT&T’s Carrier Cost Recovery Fee, which is $1.49. Seriously, AT&T? Did my 3 one minute phone calls really cause you to need to recover $1.49 in carrier costs?<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you’ve ever had issues with this sort of corporate capitalism, feel free to post below. I feel slightly better now, but I’m still $2.34 poorer for 3 tiny phone calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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